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by shakezula 1339 days ago
> believed it would stop transmission

It did lower transmission. Multiple studies confirmed this.

> remember that wasn’t the messaging

Yes, it wasn’t, because it’s generally considered bad practice to attempt to predict the future, and if they had you’d be complaining about them attempting to predict the future.

> the message was “it’s safe and effective and protects others”

All of the data agrees with this statement.

> A lot of damaged trust in institutions these last few years

Yes, I wonder why that is

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This is a strong argument for honest messaging which includes the appropriate caveats
> Yes I wonder why that is

Because they lied to us.

Would you consider that this could be the goal of ongoing hostile intelligence operations?
Divided we fall.
Very possible that CIA, NED, etc. played a role, but they didn't benefit from vaccine sales nearly as much as the pharma firms did.